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The First Pogrom

Posted July 5th, 2012 at 12:23 PM by Clodius
Updated August 28th, 2012 at 07:53 AM by Clodius

In the summer or autumn of 38 CE an unprecedented outbreak of anti-Jewish violence erupted in Alexandria, perpetrated by members of the city’s Greek population. This violence was tolerated – indeed endorsed – by the Roman governor, the equestrian prefect Aulus Avillius Flaccus, and this government involvement in the violence is particularly remarkable given Flaccus’ previously unimpeachable conduct as governor and his fair treatment of Alexandria’s well-established and large Jewish community. As...
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Varus' Big Judaean Adventure

Posted November 28th, 2011 at 10:20 AM by Clodius
Updated March 9th, 2012 at 04:10 PM by Clodius

If you have ever heard of Publius Quinctilius Varus, it will no doubt be in conjunction with the infamous clades Variana of 9 CE, the catastrophic loss of three legions to the German tribes under the command of Arminius in the Teutoberg Forest, near present-day Kalkriese in Lower Saxony, Germany. This celebrated military catastrophe was an event of some consequence - it put an end to the fledgling Roman province across the Rhine, and drastically curtailed Roman hopes of a German imperium. Not only...
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Josephus

Posted November 10th, 2011 at 07:36 AM by Clodius
Updated May 29th, 2012 at 01:25 PM by Clodius

Titus Flavius Josephus was born Yosef ben Matityehu in 37 CE, probably in Jerusalem. He was the second son of a leading Jewish priest at the Jerusalem Temple and, through his mother, he was a descendant of the Hasmonaeans, the former royal dynasty of Judaea and the descendants of the Maccabees.

In his youth, Yosef (according to his own account) experminted with a wide variety of forms of Judaism, learning the doctrines of the Sadducees, the Pharisees and the Essenes, as well as studying...
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The Coligny Calendar

Posted October 17th, 2011 at 07:47 AM by Clodius
Updated October 17th, 2011 at 07:57 AM by Clodius

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The surviving fragments of the Coligny Calendar were discovered in 1897, at a vineyard in the vicinity of Lyons, in the territory of the ancient Ambarri tribe. The fragments apparently formed part of a metal hoard, and were discovered alongside a bronze statue of Mars which has been dated to between 50 and 150 CE. The calendar fragments are bronze plate, inscribed with a Gaulish language text written in Latin characters. The...
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Aristophanes of Kydathenaion

Posted September 26th, 2011 at 02:50 PM by Clodius

Aristophanes of Kydathenaion

Rescued from the imminent obscurity of the sadly terminal Ancient Biography Thread!

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Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of Kydathenaion is remembered today as the “Father of Comedy”, since his satirical plays are the earliest surviving works of comic drama in history. Eleven of his acerbic, obscene, politically outspoken plays survive, covering some of the most turbulent and fascinating years in Athenian history,...
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